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As the COVID-19 crisis shuts down businesses across the country, total unemployment claims have nowpassed 30 million. And with unemployment benefits agenciesbuckling under the strainof new applicants, even that figure is likely a severe undercount. Taken together, the study suggests, millions of unemployed people have been effectively locked out of filing claims. 40% off TNW Conference! Heres a sampling of some of the ways states online systems have failed during the crisis....

Consideringeverystartup confronts this question at some point, I was surprised by how little has been written about it. So I decided to do my own digging. I spent the past month personally reaching out to founders, scouring interviews, andtapping the Twitterverse. Otherwise, lets dive into the strategies. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Whitney Wolfe and Justin Mateen would basically run around USC pitching Tinder to sororities and fraternities....

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. While getting people to visit a website is important, what businesses actually want is aconversion. 40% off TNW Conference! Snipcart follows landing page conversion best practices by keeping it uncluttered and to the point. State your case Sell a better life Companies persuade people to visit their website through various marketing efforts. Firstly, they explain how their unique product or service can benefit a potential user....

Commercial fitness trackers are being used for all kinds of things other than tracking steps. They measure heart rate, track sleep patterns, and calculate basal metabolic rate and calories burned. Theyre used in clinical trials, research labs, and by insurance companies and corporate wellness programs. But are they really reliable enough? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. (Well get to that in a minute.) Users can further personalize those calculations by programming the equipment with their height, weight, and age....

Cosmic rays pouring down from space constantly bombarded those molecules as they replicated, and developed over time. When chemicals take on similar mirror shapes, they are known as chiral molecules. This chirality of molecules is sometimes known as handedness, due to its relation to human hands. This property of chiral molecules can have significant effects on reactions within living structures. 40% off TNW Conference! Attempting to use the mirror twin can often result in unexpected often tragic results....

A substantial part of humanity is slowly emerging from weeks of lockdown. What we have experienced is truly rare: a real global threat, menacing to all wherever we lived. But how did humanity respond to this pandemic? Did people consistently stay at home as most governments asked them to? And if they didnt, where did they go? We can answer these questions thanks to Google. Never before has this level of detail been available....

The current crisis is first and foremost humanitarian, with 300k casualties to date worldwide and massive joblessness. It is also economic, with almost all companies having financial difficulties and many collapsing. However, a few sectors are currently booming (e.g. Many countries are still largely shut down, while others are re-opening. Economies are initiating a reboot. Health-related behaviors are changing. This has started to trickle down to startups and tech development....

But when cosmologists counted up everything they could see or measure at the time, they came up short. Everything on the periodic table and pretty much anything that you think of as stuff is made of baryons. This sparked the missing baryon problem. This was termed the warm-hot intergalactic medium and nicknamed the WHIM. In 2001, another piece of evidence in favor of the WHIM emerged. Now cosmologists just had to find this invisible plasma....

Hello, Bonjour, Hola, , Guten Tag, , , Merhaba, Jo Napot, ! Designers at global companies frequently work with geographically distributed teams. We also regularly work on digital products designed for global consumption for clients located all over the world. Cross-cultural designindisputably presents complex challengesboth linguistic and cultural. The road to successful cross-cultural design with great UX is far more complicated and rife with pitfalls. Who can forget the seminal cautionary tale of why Chevrolets Nova failed in Latin America?...

Unfortunately, this misperception can lead to CSS being taken for granted, or even overlooked to some extent. What do CSS developers do? Lets start with the basics. Why is CSS so important, and what exactly are CSS developers supposed to do? CSS is a specific language, and as such, it cannot exist on its own. It requires HTML to make sense. So, the first thing CSS developers do is write HTML code....

But during the coronavirus pandemic, things are anything but normal. [Read:This free AI chatbot helps businesses fight COVID-19 misinformation] 40% off TNW Conference! Fraud detection systems that home in on anomalous behavior are confused by new shopping and spending habits. And shopping recommendations just arent as good as they used to be. Suppose youre running a bottled water factory and have several vending machines in different locations. Every day, you distribute your produced water bottles between your vending machines....

For your reading pleasure, heres the draft of Trumps upcoming EO regarding social media. Removing this protection would, theoretically, render the current business model for almost every social media company ineffective. pic.twitter.com/STCgxGezrQ Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)May 28, 2020 40% off TNW Conference! When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida. Did he get away with murder? Some people think so. Why did he leave Congress so quietly and quickly?...

Have you ever wondered whats behind the weather forecast TV reports? Or who is managing government satellites? Perhaps youve wandered across a sensor where does that data go? The KNMI forecasts weather, researches climate change, and monitors seismic activity. Their reach goes far beyond the Netherlands. In 2017, the KNMI-built TROPOMI was launched into the atmosphere aboard the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite. But how is this data collected? It’s free, every week, in your inbox....